Katie Caldesi to offer school teachers Lessons in Loaf

On Wednesday 25 January 2012, La Cucina Caldesi owner and cookery book author Katie Caldesi is holding a half day workshop in support of the Real Bread Campaign's work to help teachers run Real Bread making classes in their schools.

A well-known face to viewers of BBC TV shows including Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, Katie is hosting this one-off session for a limited number of teachers from 9.30am to 12.30pm at her cookery school’s purpose-built training kitchen in Marylebone. The workshop will cover making basic Real Breads, including white and wholemeal loaves or rolls, plus healthy veggie pizza, with advice on how to fit bread making into the school day.  Participants will also receive the Campaign’s Lessons in Loaf teacher’s guide.

Katie Caldesi said: ‘We’re delighted to be able to help the Campaign encourage teachers to get kids baking delicious Real Bread.’

Chris Young of the Campaign added: ‘Baking Real Bread is child’s play but sadly there are far too few schools teaching kids how. It’s great that Katie and her team have agreed to help inspire teachers to run one of the most enjoyable, memorable and useful lessons they’ll teach all year.’

In support of the Campaign’s mission to put Lessons in Loaf on the timetable, La Cucina Caldesi cookery school is offering places in this Real Bread workshop at the very generously discounted rate of only £30 per teacher, including a light lunch. Places are available to teachers who don't teach Real Bread baking already but have the commitment and access to facilities to start doing so. The Campaign is taking bookings now and teachers who are interested in attending should download the application form from the Lessons in Loaf page of www.realbreadcampaign.org

Part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme, the Real Bread Campaign champions locally produced loaves and finds ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.  

La Cucina Caldesi cookery school is the only Italian cookery school in central London, catering for all levels of skill, including children as well as adults. Its tailor made cookery classes are ideal for corporate group events, birthday celebrations, hen and stag days, and private dining.

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For more information on the Real Bread Campaign please contact Chris Young: chris@sustainweb.org or 0203 5596 777 www.realbreadcampaign.org       twitter.com/realbread     facebook.com/realbreadcampaign

For more information on La Cucina Caldesi, please contact Jo Hynes: jo@caldesi.com or 020 7487 0756
www.caldesi.com/la_cucina_caldesi

 

Notes to editors

The Real Bread Campaign is helping the nation’s kids get baking Real Bread at school. In addition to running workshops for teachers, the Campaign’s Lessons in Loaf scheme includes a free teacher’s pack on planning hands-on Real Bread making sessions for any age, plus lesson plans that tie the topic of bread in with a range of curriculum subjects at Key Stage 2. Where the Campaign knows a baker willing to teach children Real Bread making skills, they will contact local schools to pass on the offer.

Other current initiatives from the Real Bread Campaign include:

• Real Bread on The Menu: the Campaign’s scheme to encourage more public sector institutions (such as schools, care homes and hospitals) and food access projects (e.g. co-operative buying groups, community cafes, box schemes) around Britain to make Real Bread available.
• Bake Your Lawn: A FREE grassroots guide to support teachers and parents helping children around Britain to sow a square metre of soil with a handful of wheat in the spring and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it, to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps.
• Knead to Know: the Real Bread starter: the Campaign’s 140 page introductory guide to success in bringing Real Bread back to the heart of your local community, available as a limited edition book or PDF download. 
• The Real Bread Loaf Mark: Want to find Real Bread? Then Look for The Loaf Mark! This is the at-a-glance assurance from a baker that a loaf is what the Campaign calls Real Bread.
• The Real Bread Finder: the only online directory dedicated to helping people find where to buy Real Bread locally. Free for bakers to add, and people to search for, places to buy Real Bread locally.

Local Food has been developed by a consortium of 15 national environmental organisations, and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). Supported by the Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme, Local Food has distributed grants to a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible. www.localfoodgrants.org

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) is a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter, to promote conservation and manage environmental programmes throughout the whole of the UK. It has established management systems for holding and distributing funds totalling more than £20 million annually to environmental projects across the UK.

The Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out £2 million in Lottery good cause money every 24 hours to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. www.biglotteryfund.org.uk.

The Sheepdrove Trust also provides generous annual funding to the Campaign.